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Demurrage and inequality: modern anthropology affirms another critique of capitalism
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Demurrage and inequality: modern anthropology affirms another critique of capitalism

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Carl Beijer
Mar 10, 2017
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Lately I’ve been working my way through Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler, an anthropological study of the relationship between inequality and violence. In his discussion of the ancient roots of inequality, Scheidel references a fascinating 2015 paper called “Cereals, Appropriability, and Hierarchy“, which argues that

the development of social hierarch…

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